Hello. I first turned off defender the normal way under settings.
I installed another Anti Virus program and defender came back and
was running in the background. I tried 2 more times to turn off
defender. But it still came back. Don't need 2. This turned it off for good.
I have a program for Anti virus and Internet Security and a program
for Malware installed. It no longer tries to use 90% of my processor
anymore. I never said, Don't Install Protection. I never said go unprotected.
Everyone needs An Antivirus and Malware program. But 1 that does not
try to burn up your Processor, and nearly renders your computer almost
useless when running. Defender used to kick in at the worst time, like
when I would wake up my computer because I need to use it. I tried
several times to stop defender in task manager. But get messages like
Windows will become unstable and crash.
This was the only way I could get Defender Out of my way!
I have been fighting Defender since I first installed 8.1 a year ago.
3 weeks now and defender has not come back to bother me anymore.
Tim Robins.